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A number of councillors this week called on Mayo County Council to ensure that the clock in Ballinrobe town on the courthouse is restored to proper working order. Cllr Damien Ryan had included the item as part of a notice of motion for the Claremorris Electoral Area meeting this week.

Farmers are responsible for the maintenance of their own boundary fences. That was the message loud and clear from the Swinford electoral area committee this week.

Independent Castlebar based county councillor Frank Durcan this week called for county manager Peter Hynes to step down from his position. Cllr Durcan made his call at the April meeting of the council this week. Mr Hynes was giving a report on the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) investigation into the complaints made by Roger McGreal against Kieran Lynn, senior executive engineer with Mayo County Council.

A senior executive engineer with Mayo County Council was found by the Standards in Public Office Commission to have breached the Ethics in Public Office Act in a report published recently. The investigation was carried out by the commission after an allegation against Kieran Lynn in relation to the declaration of interests and works carried out to improve access to lands he owned at Cushalogurt, Westport, Co Mayo, by Mayo County Council.

Westmeath County Council aims to make a 33 per cent energy saving in the public sector by 2020, in line with national targets.

Westport councillor John O’Malley has asked that work on potholes in the Westport Electoral Area be sped up as otherwise it will be “July or August” before council workers get around to the “terrible” roads.

The vexed question of discarded chewing gum on the streets of Mullingar will have to be re-addressed, when it was revealed this week the experimental‘gumbuster’ machine employed recently by the council “was more damaging to the surfaces than to the gum”.

Following a presentation from Mr Iarla Moran on Mayo County Council’s winter maintenance plan at this week’s Swinford Electoral Area meeting, a number of councillors called for grit to be deposited in strategic locations for local groups to use to grit local roads.

Fine Gael councillor Eugene Lavin this week bemoaned the delays that have beset the works on the Kiltimagh to Bohola road. The improvement project, which began 11 years ago, still has not been completed and, despite work being carried out on a stretch of it at present, the works will cease in the near future when the current funding allocation runs out.

Measures must be taken to deal with the wall between Ballybrit Court and Cluain Ard estate in Ballybrit which is “very dangerous” due to the sheer drop on the Cluain Ard side.